20 Ways to Reinvent Yourself in 2021

Russell C. Smith & Michael Foster
2 min readJan 27, 2021

1. Stay safe and well. Get some rest. Live in the moment.

2. Believe in yourself.

3. Use the power of list-making to make things happen.

4. Remember reinvention happens from the inside-out. It begins with changing your mind.

5. Think of your day as a blank page. Fill it up with what you most want to do and be.

6. Learn a new skill, which will rewire a part of your brain.

7. Start a project you’ve been putting off for months, or years.

8. Take a break. Walk around the block or take a nap.

9. Now that time is open-ended and elastic, do things you’ve been putting off: meditating, journaling, learning to play an instrument, planting a garden, becoming a better cook, learning to code, completing your book.

10. Let your mind wander free. Imagine what your reinvented self would love to be doing.

11. Begin again. Begin again. Begin again.

12. Read more books in 2021 than you’ve ever read before.

13. Use timers, calendars, alarms, and every method you can to form projects into chunks, and uplevel your daily productivity.

14. Know that your mind is the most world-changing tool at your disposal. This is why reading is essential. This is why living in the moment is important.

Photo / 2020 / Russell C. Smith

15. Make a new list every day. See what stays on the list and what drops off.

16. Seek inspiration. Find out who or what inspires you to keep reinventing.

17. Cultivate and follow your intuition.

18. Whatever has been holding you back in your career, relationships, life, choose to let it go.

19. Know that reinvention is a process, and no amount of effort you put into it is wasted.

20. Bring your reinvented self, abilities, voice, movement, ideas, words, and whole being to the world and stand up for everything you’ve already accomplished — and what you’re about to do.

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Russell C. Smith & Michael Foster

Co-authors of Reinventions, Manifestos & Declarations: Notes on Living through History in the Making / on Amazon in the Social Philosophy section